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T3-87 · Tier 3 · Job Skills

AI+ for Textual & Discourse Analysis

Analyse Language, Discourse and Meaning with AI

You need to code 300 transcripts. Manually, that's three weeks. With a principled framework, it's three days — and every decision is documented.

You're coding transcripts manually at midnight, knowing you can't finish the corpus before the deadline. Or you've used ChatGPT for summaries but couldn't defend the method in your supervision meeting. AI can scale your analysis — but only if you know where it belongs and where it doesn't. The DECODE Protocol maps six stages of textual and discourse analysis, with over 30 prompt templates spanning content coding, CDA feature extraction, corpus linguistics, narrative mapping, and write-up across four genres. Built by an AI engineering firm for researchers who know how to read texts — and need AI to extend their reach without compromising what makes their analysis intellectually serious.

Tier

Tier 3 · Job Skills

Category

Research & Media

Format

Guide

Updated

Q2 2026

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Inside

30+ ready-made prompt templates: content coding schemes, CDA feature extraction, KWIC concordance interpretation, narrative structure mapping, and four write-up genres
The DECODE Protocol — the six-stage AI-assisted discourse analysis framework covering every major tradition from corpus linguistics to conversation analysis
A validation workflow for AI-assisted coding: training sample, validation pass, inter-rater agreement, and the methods-section attribution paragraph that satisfies peer review
Comparative corpus analysis: how to map how two institutional corpora represent the same issue — at a scale manual reading can't reach
A 90-day action plan with month-by-month checks, a personal prompt library, and an AI practice statement for supervision meetings and ethics submissions

Who this is for

Qualitative researchers, communication scholars, linguists, humanities academics, and postgraduate students who analyse texts — interviews, documents, media, social media, policy papers, literary works — and want to use AI to work faster and more rigorously without compromising methodological integrity

Also for:Applied researchers and analysts in policy, NGOs, UX, and market research who regularly work with large volumes of text and need a structured, ethical approach to AI-assisted analysis; journalism and media studies researchers examining discourse in news, social media, or political communication

You’ll be able to

Construct, prepare and ethically manage a text corpus for AI-assisted analysis
Apply the DECODE Protocol to structure an end-to-end textual or discourse analysis project with AI at each stage
Conduct AI-assisted content analysis, including scheme development, coding, and pattern detection, while preserving analytical integrity
Apply core discourse analysis methods — critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, narrative analysis, frame analysis — with AI as a research assistant
Write up and report discourse analysis findings, with clear attribution of AI assistance in methods sections

What’s inside

Diagnostic: How ready are you to use AI in your textual and discourse analysis?
Chapter 1: AI in Textual and Discourse Analysis Right Now
Chapter 2: Building and Preparing Your Text Corpus
Chapter 3: AI-Assisted Content Analysis and Coding
Chapter 4: Critical Discourse Analysis with AI
Chapter 5: Corpus Linguistics Techniques
Chapter 6: Narrative and Frame Analysis
Chapter 7: Conversation and Interactional Analysis
Chapter 8: Multimodal and Digital Discourse
Chapter 9: Writing Up Textual and Discourse Findings
Chapter 10: Your Textual Analysis Action Plan
Back matter: Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference

Built by an AI engineering firm for researchers who know how to read texts — and need AI to extend their reach without compromising what makes their analysis intellectually serious.

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ROL-03The Researcher's AI Pack SKL-02The AI Research Pack STU-02The Postgraduate & Research Pack

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